chronicledmonocle

"They yearn for the mines, obviously. Why do you think the kids play so much Minecraft?" -Some Republican, probably-

It's pretty useful for off-grid comms. It's also pretty cheap to get started. I got two Heltec V3 devices that include the little antennas with them for $37 total.

Oddly, Windows can natively handle .tar.gz now. Found that out the other day.

This has been me with Meshtastic. JFC I'm all in on it. Already have something like 9 nodes built and have been asking if I can place nodes in various places around my town to build out the mesh.

Lol what the hell is that marketing video?

You're....walking in the woods....And then suddenly you're....uh....flashbanged? And then you're in the back of your kidnapper's car with a convenient Heltec device to communicate with?

I honestly have no idea what the actual fuck happened in that marketing video.

Cheers mate

If you want to run VR on Linux with your Quest headset, WiVRn works absolutely flawlessly. Been running VR with my Quest 2 for a while with it.

Not sure if jailbreaks exist for the Quest 3, but I've considered jailbreaking my Quest 2 in order to run it without a Meta account.

You installed KDE on Mint? Why not just install Debian with KDE?

Start with something simple like Linux Mint. You can run it in a VM, if you want to "try before you buy (in)".

Cough MassGravel Activation Scripts Cough

You can change your bootloader output to verbose and it should give you an idea. Probably a startup process hanging for it's maximum timeout or something.

Valve made a compatibility layer for the Steam Deck and Linux called Proton. It uses a lot of technologies, including WINE, dxvk, and more to make Windows games run well on Linux. It basically takes Windows API calls and translates them to Linux with little to no performance penalty.

Steam also has native builds for Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Linux how, so you can just install it. Most Linux distros have Steam right in their software manager now.

Typically, unless the game has blocked Linux with something like kernel-level anticheat, it'll "just work" on Linux now. There is a community database called ProtonDB that has a list of games and how well they do or don't work.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.